Peter Grünberg

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Peter Grünberg
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Peter Andreas Grünberg (German pronunciation:

laureate for his discovery with Albert Fert of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disk drives.[4]

Life and career

Grünberg was born in

Catholic.[9]

After the war, the family was interned; the parents were brought to a camp. His father, a Russia-born engineer who since 1928 had worked for Škoda, died on 27 November 1945 in Czech imprisonment and is buried in a mass grave in Pilsen which is also inscribed with Grünberg Theodor † 27. November 1945.[10] His mother Anna (who died in 2002 aged 100)[11] had to work in agriculture and stayed with her parents in the Petermann[12] house in Untersekerschan[13] (Dolní Sekyřany), where her children (Peter's sister was born in 1937) were brought later. The remaining Grünberg family, like almost all Germans, was expelled from Czechoslovakia in 1946. Seven-year-old Peter came to Lauterbach, Hesse where he attended gymnasium.[14]

Grünberg received his intermediate diploma in 1962 from the

Technische Universität Darmstadt, where he received his BSc diploma in physics in 1966 and his Ph.D. in 1969. While there, he met and married his wife, Helma Prauser, who became a schoolteacher.[15] From 1969 to 1972, he did postdoctoral work at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.[16] He later joined the Institute for Solid State Physics at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany, where he became a leading researcher in the field of thin film and multilayer magnetism until his retirement in 2004.[14]

In 1984–1985 he served as visiting scientist at

Miyagi-ken
, Japan from 1998 till 2004.

In 2007, Grünberg was awarded Honorary Doctorate from the

University of Athens.[16]

Important work

In 1986 he discovered the antiparallel exchange coupling between

hard drives. Another application of the GMR effect is non-volatile, magnetic random access memory
.

Apart from the Nobel Prize, work also has been rewarded with shared prizes in the APS

European Inventor of the Year[18] in the category "Universities and research institutions" by the European Patent Office and European Commission
in 2006.

Honors and awards

Selected publications

Peter Grünberg playing guitar during his speech

References

  1. ^ "Forschungszentrum Jülich – GMR – Curriculum Vitae Peter A. Grünberg". www.fz-juelich.de. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  2. ^ "Noted German physicist Peter Grünberg dies | DW". Deutsche Welle. 2018-04-09. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  3. ^ Peter Grünberg RIP
  4. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007". The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2007-10-09.
  5. ^ 1939 wurde ich im damals von Hitler annektierten Pilsen, heute Tschechien, als Sudetendeutscher geboren. Gleich nach Kriegsende, mit dem Einmarsch der Alliierten-Truppen, wurden alle Deutschen, so auch meine Familie, interniert. Meine Eltern kamen in ein Lager: Mein Vater Feodor ist im Lager geblieben, meine Mutter Anna dann zur Feldarbeit in das Dorf meiner Großeltern gekommen. Wir Kinder sind anfangs zu meiner tschechischen Tante gebracht worden, später zu meiner Mutter. 1946 bin ich nach Lauterbach in Hessen ausgesiedelt und dort eingeschult worden. Meinen Vater habe ich nicht mehr gesehen, er ist im Internierungslager gestorben. — interview at "Glauben Sie an Gott?". Archived from the original on 2007-11-30. Retrieved 2008-06-05.
  6. ^ Curriculum Vitae Peter A. Grünberg — Peter Andreas Grünberg, born on 18 May 1939 in Pilsen (now Czech Republic), parents: Dipl.-Ing. Feodor A. Grünberg and Anna Grünberg. CVV at fz-juelich.de Archived 2007-12-15 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ "Heimatkreis Mies-Pilsen e. V". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
  8. ^ Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft, „Kreisgruppe Hochtaunus“,20.11.2007 [1]
  9. Ring Parable in an interview with Gerhard Ertl and Peter Grünberg at cicero.de Archived 2007-11-30 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ Grünberg Theodor † 27. November 1945, westboehmen.de
  11. ^ "Nobelpreisträger Grünberg aus Pilsen". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
  12. ^ Photo 2, westboehmen.de
  13. ^ Photo 1, westboehmen.de
  14. ^ a b "Curriculum Vitae". Forschungszentrum Jülich. Archived from the original on 2007-12-15. Retrieved 2007-10-09.
  15. ^ Overbye, Dennis (13 April 2018). "Peter Grünberg, 78, Winner of an 'iPod Nobel,' Is Dead". The New York Times. p. A25. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  16. ^ a b "Grünberg, Peter, 1939–". history.aip.org. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
  17. PMID 9948867
    .
  18. ^ "European Inventor of the Year 2006 in the category Universities and research institutions: Peter Grünberg (Jülich Research Centre, Germany)". 2006. Retrieved 10 April 2018.

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